Natalia felt the change in Olivia as soon as they entered their room for lunch. She knew Olivia has been watching her. No one had tried anything, she couldn't figure out what the problem was. "Olivia? What's wrong?"
"Nothing." Olivia sat on the bunk with her elbow resting on her knees. Her hit list had gone from two to 5 overnight. Right now the only thing that was stopping her from taking on the whole unit was her upcoming phone call with Rafe and Ava. Olivia bit into her bottom lip rocking back and forth.
Natalia remained at the door watch Olivia. "Olivia did someone say something?"
"No, Natalia. Someone tried to kill you and you're walking around like it never happened!" Olivia stood up off the bunk, slamming her hands on the desk.
"Olivia"
"Hey what's going on in here?" Foley stood in their doorway with his arms folded.
"Nothing." Natalia replied. "Right, Olivia?"
Olivia kept her back to the pair afraid she might say something if she opened her mouth.
"Whatever, keep it down." Foley slapped the door frame winking at Natalia.
"Olivia?"
"I'm fine." Olivia shook her head. Everything wouldn't be so screwed up if she could tell Natalia. Who the fuck cares, the deal is off. Technically I don't work for them anymore, so why can't I tell Natalia. I should. But that might put her in more danger. But if I help Rafe…if we find Patrick, then he'll have the real killer. Then he'll have to let me go and Natalia too.
"I don't know how many times I have to tell you everything is going to be okay." Natalia hugged Olivia from behind. "Kennedy already apologized and I forgave her, plus she told me something that could be very useful."
"I don't know how you could do that." Olivia countered not listening to what Natalia really said\.
"Because… I love you."
Olivia chuckled. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"I'll tell you later. I think we have a phone call to make." Natalia pulled Olivia out of the room to the phones.
Neither of them realized the hate filled stare coming from the top level.
Natalia had the phone resting on her shoulder so both of them could hear Rafe speaking.
"Olivia you haven't said anything." Rafe spoke louder, Natalia craned her head.
"No I'm here. I'm listening." Olivia had been droning in and out of the conversation. Her mind was preoccupied with getting Rafe on the phone by herself.
"Anyway I have to go, got a meeting with my tutor. Got two of them now both for math. Love you Ma. Bye Olivia."
"Bye baby."
"Ma… I'm an adult"
"I know, I know."
"Bye Rafe." Olivia spoke into the phone.
"Bye." Natalia hung up the phone, feeling guiltier than before. Maybe I should have told Rafe, but that only would make him worry and he needs to focus.
"You didn't tell him." Olivia stopped Natalia from walking away.
"He doesn't need to worry about me and neither do you." Natalia touched the tip of Olivia's nose. "So I thought we could lie in the grass for the rest of the day, watch the clouds." Natalia craned her neck to the side.
Olivia smiled at how quite Natalia could be sometimes. "You go ahead I have to call my attorney to check in."
"You're a bad liar. But…" Natalia placed her finger over Olivia's lip before she could protest. "But I trust you and I love you. So I'll be waiting for you." Natalia replaced her finger with her lips, pulling away before Olivia could deepen the kiss. "You better come find me."
Olivia smiled watching Natalia leave. There was that word again, trust. Someone Olivia never gave another person and something she didn't necessarily deserve from the other woman. She waited until Natalia was out of the door. Olivia quickly dialed her hired investigator back. She bounced on her feet listening to the ring.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Dennis. It's Olivia Spencer."
"Oh. Olivia. Yes, I have very good news. I located Patrick."
"What did he say?" Olivia became impatience.
"I haven't talked to him yet. It seems he is under investigation for another crime or something of the matter. I couldn't get o him, but I plan on talking to him tomorrow. If you'll call me back tomorrow I'll have more."
"Thank you so much." Olivia hung up before Dennis could reply; she was already calling Rafe back. "Rafe?"
"What did he say?'
"He found him. He's going to talk to him tomorrow." Olivia heard Rafe breathe deeply on the phone.
"What if he blames me? Ma's going to be mad."
"Don't worry I have someone looking into helping you. You let me worry about this. Okay?"
"Okay, but…maybe we should tell Ma. I know she told you to drop it and stuff but maybe she should know."
"I will, I just need a little more time to figure all of it out."
"All of what out?'
"I'll fill you in later, I promise." Olivia tried to reassure Rafe, being a triple agent was hard especially when you care about two of the three people. "I'll call you tomorrow to update you. Tell Ava."
"Okay."
"Bye." Olivia slowly hung up the phone. How am I going to protect Rafe and Natalia? If Josh can pull it off it will be a miracle.
Natalia sat outside on the grass, waiting for Olivia. Her mind wondered, but not too far. She could feel the eyes staring at her back. She also had figured out the reason they hadn't made another attempt on her life.
The reason sat next to her. "You mind." Rachel laid down on the grass, eagle spread beside Natalia. "You weren't saving this seat for anyone right?"
"Besides you, no." Natalia checked to make sure Olivia wasn't outside yet. She needed time to put everything in motion.
"I knew it." Rachel sat up, moving closer to the other woman. "I knew from the first time I saw you. I said to myself, 'Rachel this woman has to be your queen.' That whole thing on the basketball court was just for show. I really wanted some brown sugar." Rachel tried her best pick up line, her eyes roaming over Natalia's body. She threw a party inside when Natalia smiled.
Natalia bit her lip trying not to laugh in the woman's face. Oh my god, I've heard better line from junior high kids. "D.W. told me told everyone to let me be." Natalia twirled her hair in a flirty way.
"Who?...Oh you mean Dark Wing. She told you that uh."
"Yea she did. I have to say I'm impressed."
"You shouldn't be. I have a lot of power around here. I can get you anything you want at anytime. Stick with me and I can protect you."
"Thank god." Natalia exhaled. "I need someone to protect me."
"Yea you do, I'm just the person." Rachel placed her hand on Natalia's knee sliding it up her leg.
Natalia caught the offending limp. "Maybe."
"Maybe?" Is she questioning my authority? I was the one who could have had her killed, I'm the reason she isn't dead now. "What you think that bitch inside can do better. If she could she would have been there to help you."
Natalia was drawing blood from the inside of her cheek. She twitched trying to control her tempter. "You can see how I can be a little nervous, what with her walking around." Natalia threw a glance over her shoulder.
Rachel looked back eyeballing Harley sitting at the table watching them. "What do you want me to do?"
"I don't know. I just want her out not killed." Natalia shrugged her shoulders. Then all I have to do is get rid of you and everything can go back to some sort of normalcy.
"Okay. Okay." Rachel nodded her head. "Just remember sugar, I don't like to be played with." Rachel stood up dusting off her jump suit. "I'll see you tomorrow."
Harley watched Rachel until she disappeared into the unit.
Rachel walked by the phone as Olivia hung it up.
"What are you looking at?" Olivia stepped into Rachel's personal space.
Rachel looked Olivia up and down, chuckling."Nothing, absolutely nothing." Rachel walked away laughing to herself.
"Bitch." Olivia replied none too quietly.
"I thought I asked you to play nice." Josh walked up behind Olivia.
"You told me a lot of things."
"Yea I heard what happened yesterday with Rivera." Josh played with the radio on his belt. "Sorry about that."
"Josh, I need your help."
"I'm listening."
Olivia waved him over to her room. Olivia leaned against the table debating her nest move."You said you wanted to catch the real killer of that Officer right?"
"Right."
"What if it wasn't Rafe? And what if I think I know who did it."
"I don't know Olivia the case against him was pretty solid the only snag was the confession Rivera gave." Josh scratched his beard.
"But there were no I witnesses or video. So what was the evidence, besides the gun?"
Josh nodded his head listening to Olivia plead the case. There really was no evidence beside footprints in the snow leading to the Rivera apartment building, that didn't match Natalia's or her sons.
A witness said they saw someone two young men hanging out earlier and Rafe just happened to be the only male teenager in the apartment building four. Patrick lived in building three, adjacent to the Rivera building.
"The thing is he's in Texas going to school-"
"He's in Texas? Olivia if you know something-" Josh interrupted Olivia.
"He didn't do it and I believe him. See…what I'm saying they don't have anything on Rafe or Natalia. What if it was someone else and that person confessed?"
"If that person confessed then they would have no other choice than to let her go." Lewis pinched the bridge of his nose slightly irritated at the line of questioning. "But they know somehow that it was her son. I don't know how but they do. And if you ever what to be free you'll turn him in and it will be better for him. I'll ask for leniency."
"No, we both know they will give him the maximum sentence." Olivia shook her head. "He didn't do it Josh."
Josh threw his hands in the air turning to leave. "It's up to you Olivia. It's your life." He stopped in the doorway. "I'll be on the mainland for a couple of days, new inmates coming."
"What about Cooper?" Olivia sat down on her bed.
"Try to keep him busy. He doesn't need to suspect that we know until we can take him down and then maybe we can leave his hellhole."
Olivia watched Josh leave. If I have to escape and fly to Texas myself, I'll make that little punk confess.
When exited her room the atmosphere of the unit had changed. There were only a few inmates outside and no one in the showers.
Olivia walked over to Doris's room seeing the woman lying on her bunk. If Wolfe is inside something must be wrong. "Wolfe, what's happening?"
Doris lowered her comic book staring at her former roommate. "Don't' know, but everyone is in a meeting. So I figure something is about to go down."
Olivia nodded walling out of the unit to find Natalia.
"Look who finally made it." Natalia smiled up at Olivia.
"I think we should retire for the day." Olivia looked around the yard. It seemed so much more spacious without the crowd of bodies.
"You worry too much." Natalia pulled Olivia down in the grass with her. "Nothing is going to happen, trust me." Natalia scooted closer to Olivia laying her head on Olivia's shoulder.
Harley's Room
Harley paced the doorway of her room. There were way too many people packed in the small space but somehow they all found a place to stand without being too close to the anxious woman.
"I want everyone to listen. The Queens are planning something so I want everyone on guard." Harley stopped her nervous pacing. "The first person to get out of line I want them dead."
A few in the crowd groaned.
Harley's eye's darkened. "What..what?"
One lone woman spoke up from the back of the crowd. "It's just that when you got here you promised that we would be running this place and we haven't seen anything change except for the fighting."
A few of the woman nodded in agreement.
"It just seems like all you care about is getting Spencer and everyone else is suffering."
"Don't worry about what I do. You do what I tell you to and if that mean killing someone you will do it or you will find yourself on the wrong side of a blade." Harley threatened the women. Just a bunch of whining babies.
Rachel's Room
"What are you talking about?" Rachel punched her hand tired of all the complaining.
"Oh come on Rachel you were just trying to kill the woman now you want us to start a war to protect her. What happen to the Royal Family." Rachel's second in command shook her head as she talked. She knew she was running the risk of being banished just like Kennedy but she had to say something. She had heard a couple of the soldier were feeling the same way.
"I am the Royal Family and if any of you want to join you will do as I say. I want Harley and her stupid angels dead by dusk tomorrow. And if anything happens to Rivera I will have your heads… Is that clear?" Rachel's voice got louder with every word.
The woman saluted before exiting the cell.
"And you…"She turned to her commander. "If you ever address me like that in front of them again I will kill you in your sleep."
The night came with everyone already in the cell by headcount.
Frank waited before going to talk to Olivia. He pulled her outside more than a little angry. "You seen Lewis?" Frank lit his cigarette.
"When did you start smoking?"
"Don't worry about it." Frank countered blowing out the thick smoke.
"Yea I saw him." Olivia sat on the top of a picnic table. She was one second away form punching Frank.
"I came and got you because this is important." Frank nervously flicked the lighter.
"So important that you took that woman to the utility closet first?"
"That's none of your business."
"You're right. So tell me why I'm out here." Olivia slid off the table.
"I wanted to talk about the case."
"There is no case remember. We went over everything and found nothing, so there is nothing else to do."
"This is what I'm talking about. You and Lewis haven't had your heads in the game. All you two have been worried about is playing house." Frank tossed the cigarette.
"Is that right?" Olivia stepped closer to the man. "Why you so nervous Frank?"
"Nervous I'm not. For the first time I'm completely fine. I see what going on."
"What's that?'
"You two, I'm the only one dedicated to this case. I was the only one trying to wrap this up."
"Yea?"
"Yes. I have been really patience with you two." Frank walked to the edge of the concrete. "And now his so hung up in transporting inmates. I'm practically here by myself." Frank lit another cigarette. "With no help."
"Oh, please Cooper, like you haven't been chumming it up with Winslow and Foley."
"They seem to be the only ones dedicated to their jobs…Plus it's my job." Frank took a long swig off his cigarette.
"What's your point Frank?" Olivia stood bored with the conversation.
"The point is things are going to change around here. If Lewis doesn't want to do his job then I will. From now on I am in charge." Frank puffed his chest out.
"In your dreams," Olivia whipped her hair in dismissal. "For your info I quit. You can be in charge of yourself."
Frank huffed as Olivia walked back inside.
"Where you been?" Natalia asked as Olivia scooted up behind her.
"Trying to clear my mind."
"You don't have to worry I took care of it." Natalia pulled Olivia arms around her.
"Natalia? What did you do?"
"Trust, Olivia."
Olivia laid down staring in the darkness.